Edge Of Tomorrow (2014)

Edge Of Tomorrow Synopsis

The epic action of Edge of Tomorrow unfolds in a near future in which an alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world. Major William Cage (Tom Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage now finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loop—forcing him to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again…and again. But with each battle, Cage becomes able to engage the adversaries with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt). And, as Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated encounter gets them one step closer to defeating the enemy.

2014 won’t go down as the greatest year in the history of Hollywood, but it had a lot of damn good movies. Some of them were big budget, some of them were made on shoestrings. In a way, that’s the great thing about Hollywood.

How many films did you manage to see this year? Are you over 100? Did you somehow manage to sneak past 200? That’d be beyond impressive. Yet, even if you strapped yourself to a theater chair and propped your eyes open, Clockwork Orange-style, the odds remain that there are a handful of titles that flew under your radar.

As we’ve been saying all week, 2014 was truly a great year for movies. The entire calendar was filled up with both memorable and surprising features, from indies to blockbusters, and these titles were made up of some incredible cinematic moments that we will not be soon forgetting.

Edgar Wright has unveiled his 10 favorite movies of 2014. And it turns out that the Shaun of the Dead filmmaker has particularly enamored with the likes of Whiplash, Boyhood, The Lego Movie and Interstellar.

Well, it’s official: Starting today, Edge of Tomorrow is now christened on its Blu-ray box as Live. Die. Repeat / Edge of Tomorrow. Tell all your friends. Or don’t, as the confounding title of this movie has no effect whatsoever on how awesome this movie is.

Spoiler Alert: Tom Cruise dies a lot in Edge of Tomorrow. Ok, that's barely a spoiler, as the premise of the film involves Cruise's character living the same day over and over, as it resets every time he dies. With that said, if you haven't seen the movie yet, you might want to skip this video, as this darkly amusing "death edit" is kind of spoilery. Many of these scenes are better seen in context.

This impressive B-roll footage from Tom Cruise's Edge of Tomorrow shows you how practical FX and CGI were used to create one of the coolest movies no one saw this summer. Cruise is a madman for doing his own stunts.

On its opening weekend, Edge Of Tomorrow (yes, that's the title we're sticking with) got its ass kicked byThe Fault In Our Stars. Already, everyone was jumping on the train blaming the film's title, marketing campaign, and even Warner Bros itself for the film's apparent failure at the box office this past June. However, in a year of weak numbers all around, perhaps it's time to re-examine Edge Of Tomorrow's box office profile. Especially today.

Edge Of Tomorrow just can't catch a break when it comes to the subject of its actual title. Further fueling the flames of speculation is IMDB's official page for the film, which may or may not be signalling the intentions of Warner Bros going forward. It all depends on how much you trust IMDB, really.

It's proving another banner year for female-fronted films, thanks to hits like Frozen, The Fault In Our Stars and Maleficent. Notably two of these three features came from Disney, and now they are facing off in Japan.

One of the complaints we heard often when discussing Edge of Tomorrow with you guys was the reliance on a “happy” ending, which many of you felt the movie didn’t earn. As it turns out, that wasn’t always the intended ending of the story.

We decided that today would be a great day to regroup, reflect and single out the best movies we have seen on screen so far in 2014. The outstanding team of Cinema Blend movie writers have chosen to champion movies both massive and small, passionate and intimate. Even by expanding our list to 10, there are titles we had to leave off of the list.

Concept artist Steffen Reichstadt -- whose credits include Noah, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Edge of Tomorrow and the upcoming Dawn of the Planet of the Apes -- shared images of possible Maleficents on his official page. Some are EXTREMELY different from the finished design.

Early in Tom Cruise’s career, he was able to find the balance between humor and seriousness repeatedly. In recent years, it’s been a little more difficult. So, it’s time we took a few steps back and celebrate how Edge Of Tomorrow truly gets its right. Here are the 6 funniest moments in the film…

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the right words can paint even more images in our minds, and a movie isn't always going to be able to measure up to that. With that in mind, I don't want to pick apart Edge of Tomorrow as it relates to its source material...

The question one asks is, did WB make this decision to save their summer, or to save Jupiter Ascending? The sci-fi gumbo, directed by the Wachowski siblings, was always going to be a tough sell. There's Channing Tatum with elfin ears, a half-wolf assassin falling in love with a janitor played by Mila Kunis who may be a queen.

Losing to the YA romance The Fault In Our Stars isn't an insult. That film also has fantastic reviews, and an interested fan base. But Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt couldn't top Maleficent in its second weekend, and the slow start for Edge of Tomorrow is troubling, for various reasons.

What do you call a big budget movie with an exceedingly bankable movie star and loads of praise from critics? Some would say Edge Of Tomorrow, but after the movie's first weekend a more appropriate phrase might be "a bomb". The sci-fi action flick had its ass handed to it by a teen literary sensation and Angelina Jolie wearing horns and a form fitting costume. A film that has Tom Cruise, the man who most consider to be our last true "movie star" at its center.

Ask folks on the street which movie they think would do better on opening weekend, an action flick starring Tom Cruise or an adaptation of a young adult drama novel, most people would probably put their money on Cruise. This weekend proved yet again that these days the second most powerful box office demographic behind comic book fans are teenage girls.

Edge of Tomorrow has officially arrived in theaters! It's earned a lot of praise from critics. Now it's time for the rest of us to hash out what we loved (or didn't love) about the sci-fi film. Get ready for the necessary spoiler warning. If you haven't seen the movie yet, turn back now!

If anything, Tom Cruise is undervalued as an actor. Industry pundits pay close attention to his global drawing power, with little to no credit given to his performances – a short-sighted approach that overlooks some incredible turns under the direction of multiple, powerful directors.

Edge of Tomorrow struck me as having some of the best 3D I could recall seeing in a very long time, and the scores prove it. Doug Liman has imagined some massive action sequences that make spectacular use of both 3D and IMAX.

Tom Cruise watches a movie a day. Only his movies though. Ok, he's kidding about that part, but the Edge of Tomorrow star did tell Jimmy Fallon that he keeps up with the latest films. Cruise visited The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night in anticipation of Edge of Tomorrow's arrival in theaters tomorrow (or tonight, technically).

The Summer season is in full effect, and it's showing at the box office with impressive hauls for recently released films like X-Men: Days of Future Past and Maleficent. So what's the buzz this weekend? Fandango's report puts The Fault in Our Stars ahead of Edge of Tomorrow...

Much like his recent film, Edge of Tomorrow, Tom Cruise seems to be in a constant loop of evaluation. His status as a box office star is constantly in question with every new film he releases, and so far he seem to be doing rather well for himself.

It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood. Which means Mrs. Rotten Week has a laundry list of outdoor jobs needing be done. They’ll have to wait though. We’ve got a lot of business to take care of with movies coming out this week. Cruise goes Phil Connors and Shailene Woodley gets sick.

No one tells Tom Cruise how to world-premiere a movie. Tom Cruise tells YOU how to world-premiere a movie. Unveiling your new action movie in one major city just isn’t enough for Tom Cruise. So he’s bringing Edge of Tomorrow to THREE major, global cities in one day.

Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cold out there today. Ok, I realize the Groundhog Day nods at Edge of Tomorrow are probably already getting tired, but it's hard to hear the words "It's a new day people" in the newest EoT trailer and not think of Bill Murray's alarm clock.

Edge Of Tomorrow is on the edge of most critic's summer movie pools. It could be a breakout hit that Tom Cruise and Doug Liman could ride to glory, or it could be another reminder to Emily Blunt that Scarlett Johannson took her spot on the Marvel Cinematic Bus to Paycheck Land.

Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt will be everywhere at once later this month for the premiere of Warner Bros.' Edge of Tomorrow. Ok, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but they're aiming to attend three premieres of the film in three separate countries a single day.

Which is why we've decided to break down most of the summer's offerings, observing exactly what it is about some films that cause them to succeed and fail. This involved number crunching, market analysis, educated guesses, and the application of a few snobby biases.

The plot concerns a future where we take trains from universe to universe, centering on a thief who is tricked into stealing an item of great value, becoming the subject of an extensive manhunt. The book isn’t even scheduled to be published until fall 2015, but Warner Bros. was excited enough to pick up the property themselves.

We've handpicked sixteen big summer releases and matched them up with an NBA title contender. Some connect tenuously, superficially. Others have unusual similarities, borderline creepy. But at least it's all at your fingertips.

This full trailer makes the movie look so much better than earlier marketing materials, which couldn’t possibly get into the intricate details of Liman’s story. (Which, no doubt, were punched up by Cruise’s hired gun of a screenwriter, McQuarrie.)

These potential blockbusters have a little selling to do, though, and Super Bowl Sunday is the ideal opportunity to fire a winning bow over the heads of ticket buyers. Here are the eight summer tentpole pictures that we think should make a splash next Sunday with an eye-popping Super Bowl advertisement.

Based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka's novel All You Need Is Kill, Edge of Tomorrow has been adapted by Usual Suspects scribe Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth, writers of the Valerie Plame biopic Fair Game. Doug Liman, who helmed Fair Game but more notably The Bourne Identity directs.

The epic action of "Edge of Tomorrow" unfolds in a near future in which an alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world. Major William Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission.

Based on the book All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka and an adapted screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie (Jack Reacher), the film is set in a distant future when the Earth is being attacked by alien invaders. Tom Cruise stars as Bill Cage, a cowardly PR guy who accidentally finds himself suiting up in exoskeleton armor and on the fields of battle.

San Diego Comic-Con’s entire programming schedule is filled with great stuff from the film world – tons of which we’ve been seeing all this week – but there’s no question that Saturday is cinema’s biggest day with the throngs of geeks in Hall H. Just about every panel that comes through the convention center’s biggest space today will deliver sneak peeks at some of the biggest blockbusters coming up this year. And the party all starts with Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures showing what they got. God

Scripted by Dante Harper, Joby Harold, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci, the thriller is a twist on films like Harold Ramis' Groundhog Day and Duncan Jones' Source Code and stars Cruise as a soldier who finds himself caught in a time loop fighting in a war against alien invaders.

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